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A. B. WARNG,

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Patented Jan. 25, 1887.

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A. B. WARNG.

HAT. N0. 356,673. Patented @11:25, 1887.

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ARTHUR B. WARING, OF YONKERS, NEW' YORK.

HAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 356,673, dated January 25, 1857.

Application iiled December 16, i886. Serial No. 221,715. (No modoLi To @ZZ whomit T11/cry concern:

Beit known that I, ARTHUR B. WARING, of Yonkers, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented a nenr and useful Improvement in Hats, of which the following is a specification.

illy invention relates to hat-linings, andthe object is to provide a hat in which the lining is so arranged as to give the interior of the hat a very attractive and ornamental appearance. Hats are usually provided each with a single lining, composed of a side lining and a tip permanently sewed to the side lining and the whole inserted Within a. hat as one-piece.

According to my invention I combine with a hat a double lining composed of an inner lining having an ornamental tip and an outer lining, through the central portion of which the ornamental tip of the inner lining is visible. The outer lining overlaps the portion of the inner lining around its ornamental tip, and is preferably raised or offset inward from the inner lining, so as to aii'ord a space between them and give to the ornamental tip adistant appearance. The central portion of the outer lining may be left open, or may have a tip composed of a transparent material, or of a fabric having a ganzy or diaphanous character.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents an inside view of a stiff hat embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the hat, and Fig. 3 is a transverse section of a soft hat embodying a slight modification of my invention.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in the several iigures.

A designates the side, and the tip, of the hat-crown. In both examples of my invention I provide a double lining; but in a soft hat the linings are secured in a Way slightly diderent from the manner of securing them in a stiff hat.

I will first describe the invention as shown in Figs. l and 2. The inner lining is coniposed of a tip, B, and a side or marginal portion, B', which extends more or less down upon the side A of the hat-crown. This inner lining may be stuck or otherwise directly secured in the hat. The marginal portion B of the inner lining may be of any kind of fabric, as the tip B is the only part visible, and the tip may be decorated or ornamented in any desired attractive manner, either by painting, printing, or otherwise. Any picture, either of figures or inanimate objects, may be produced upon theinner tip-lining, B, to give it an ornamental appearance.

C designates the side lining, `which constitutes an outer lining, and which may be of closely-Woven fabric, and therefore opaque. This outer lining extends upward sniiiciently to overlap the marginal portions B of the inner lining, and is preferably raised therefrom, so as to form between the outer lining and the inner lining, B B', a considerable space, I).

The out-er lining, C, is either left entirely open atthe central portion or has its tip G formed of a material through which the ornamental tip B of the inner lining is visible more or less clearly. The tip C of the oiiterlining may be formed of any transparent or semitransparent material, and a material which gives a very pretty effect is avery open gauzy or diaphanous netted fabric, which is itself almost invisible, being formed of very line threads, and which may be Spangled at the intersection of the threads or otherwise ornamented. Y

Through the central portion ofthe outer lining, C, the ornamental tip B of the inner lining is visible more or less clearly, according to the material of whiehthe tip C is made, and the raising of the outer lining, C C', considerably from the inner lining, B B, to form the space b gives to the inner ornamental tip, B, a distant appearance, which makes the interior of the hat very attractive.

The outer lining, C C', is secured to the hat under the sweat-band D in the usual Way, and, as shoivn in Figs. 1 and 2, is entirely unconnected with the inner lining, B B.

When my invention is embodied in asoft hat, as shown in Fig. 8, theinner lining, B B', cannot Well be secured directly to the inner surface of the hat-crown, and l may therefore stitch the margin of the part B of the inner lining to the outer lining, C, as shown at c. The linings are, however, Wholly unconnected around the tips B C', and are so placed, when stitched together at c, as to maintain the space b between them.

Vhat l. claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The combination, with a hat, of a rlonble lining composed of an inner lining having an ornamental tip and an outer lining, through the central portion ol" which the ornamental tip ot' the inner lining is visible, substantially as herein deseribecl.

2. Tlieeoxnbinntion, with abat, of a double lining composed of :in inner lining having an ornamental tip and :in outer lining overlapping the portion of the inner lining around its tip, and through the central portion of which the ornamental tip is visible, the outer lining being raised or offset inward from the inner lining, s0 :is to form n space between the two linings, substantially as herein described.

3. The combination, with ahnt, of a double lining composed of an inner lining having an ornamental tip and an outer lining having an 2o opaque side portion and a tip through Which the ornamental tip of the inner lining is visi- A ble, substantially as herein described.

4. The combination, with a hat, of adonblef lining Composed of an inner lining having an 25 ARTHUR B. WARIN G.

Witnesses: i

C. HALL, FREDK. HAYNEs. 

